On paper from Mary
Pepper, lists marriage to Susan Burroughs as March 20, 1817.

Will of Kenneth
Dye March 15, 1817

Kentucky will Book D, pages 141-143

I Kenneth DYE
of the county of Mason & state of KY being in a low state of health but of
perfect mine & memory, do this fifteenth day of March & year of our Lord
one thousand eighteen hundred & seventeen make & ordain this insturment
of writing as my last will & testament & do dispose of my estate real
& personal in the following manner/

In give to my son David DYE one
young bay horse four years old, one cow & calf & six sheep & six hog.
I give to my son James Dye bare mare called Iin & fifteen dollars in money
& four sheep. I give to my son Hiram DYE ninety dollars to paid him when he
arrives at the age of twenty one years. I give to my son Kenneth DYE one hundred
dollars & the and ... I now use, the money to be paid him at the age of twenty
one. I give to my daughter Jane one bed & bedding & curtains one looking
glass & sixty dollars all out of my personal estate. I give to my beloved
wife Phebe DYE all the property she brought to me including slaves & housefold
furniture. Also provisions of bread & meat sufficient for six months, &
two hogs also one half of the rent of the place for the last year, providing she
shall except of it as her right of dower on in lieu of her thirds, all the remainder
of my estate which is & here disposed to be equally divided between all my
sons & daughters towit Peter DYE, WIlliam DYE the children of my deceased
daughters Rachel, Margaret & Martha & my daughters Phebe & Jane that
is to say the two children of my daughter Rachel to have one share divided between
them, the children of my daughter Margaret to have one share divided between them,
the children of my daughter Martha to have one share divided between them to be
kept interest or laid out in bankstock for them that is all except their share
of land at the descretion of my executor to the best advantage year by year till
my youngest son comes of age at which it shall be equally divided between all
my sons & daugheters & deceased daughters children as before named together
with all rents & money that may be left after bring up & sufficiently
schooling my youngest son & daughter & my son Hiram six months schooling
& payig all my just debts, it is my desire that my sons Hiram & Kenneth
be put to trades, such as they may choose, & I do here by appoint my friend
Jonathan ROSS executor to this my last will & testament, also guardians to
all my children under age. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal the
day & year above named.

John SHOTWELL SenJonathan ROSSWilliam
DYE

Kenneth (his mark) DYE

1850 census District 2 Mason Co., KY

We
drove on down to Mays Lick (about 10 further south on 68) - we had never been
there - to check that cemetery for Dye's. It is still in the same place as mentioned
in Daniel Drake's book, but the original Baptist church is gone that sat on the
cemetery site. There is a newer one across from the cemetery on Pike St. We walked
through all of the older part and only came across a few Dyes. There were a lot
of empty spaces, so I imagine the markers are long gone. I took a photo of the
oldest area were there were a lot of the Drakes and one Dye marker and will send
it on if anyone is interested when I get them back.

Here are the Dye's
I found:

Lemira Dye wife of Madison Dye b. Feb 14, 1826 d. April 11, 1888
(this one in the area where the Drakes were).

a question mark after the date indicates
that the last number was indecipherable

Daniel Drake also made this comment
in his book: "All the first settlers of Mays Lick were, either by association
or profession, Baptists, and had belonged to the church at Scotch Plains, of whom
the Rev. William Van Horne was the worthy pastor". Also:"Mays Lick,
as I told you in my former letter, was a colony of East Jersey people, amounting
in the aggregate to 52 souls. Mr Tenant, who married aunt Lydia, was a West Jersey-man,
& he settled near the great road (now Rt68)2 miles from us. Jonathan Stout
& Abraham Stout and William Dye, each of whom lived within a mile, were all
from the same part of that state".